French/German Film "Things to Come" Starring Isabelle Huppert

"Things to Come" is written & directed by Mia Hansen-Love (b France 1981) and is a pain quotidian family drama sautéed in philosophical debate.  The star of the film is French actress Isabelle Huppert who plays Nathalie.  Huppert is as much a French icon as Catherine Denueve.  Nathalie is a philosophy teacher/writer.  At the beginning of the film, Nathalie is married with children.  She writes & teaches philosophy & has an eccentric mother who is depressed & very demanding of Nathalie.  Time frames elapse either at a snail's or fleeting pace.   In midlife, Nathalie's children have left to lead their lives and her husband of 25 years leaves her for another woman. "I thought you'd love me for ever," she tells him.  She continues teaching, amidst student unrest, her editors decide to make changes to her book withoug her consent and her exasperating mother dies.  Nevertheless, Nathalie has an indomitable spirit and is handling these setbacks with flair.  She has the support & admiration of a former student, Fabian.  Fabian is a published writer who credits Nathalie as his inspiration.  It's to Fabian she laments the loss of the family's vacation home on the coast where they raised their children.  Fabian invites Nathalie to visit him in the farm compound he shares with other writers/philosophers.  She visits during the summer and winter and while the setting is idyllic, she has her own life in Paris to live with complete freedom.  A French film would not be complete without food, flowers, music, protest, sex & incessant dialogue.  In other words, this film is tres French, and the Americans daily grind does not quite have that je ne sais quois of the French.  Although, woe to him who desires nothing.  My philosophy is that Paris is always a good idea.